King Abdullah II arrives in Palm Springs for Sunnylands visit

1:52 AM, February 14, 2014

President Obama meets with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 26. The two will meet for talks in the Coachella Valley on Friday. Feb. / Getty Images

| Desert Sun staff reports

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PALM SPRINGS — King Abdullah II of Jordan landed Thursday afternoon at Palm Springs International Airport, one day ahead of his meeting with President Barack Obama at the Sunnylands estate in Rancho Mirage.

A Gulfstream attached to Royal Jordanian Airlines was spotted landing around 3:45 p.m. The plane’s flight history showed it took off from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.

The White House announced Thursday that Obama is schedule­d to land at Palm Springs International Airport at 6:35 p.m. Friday. He will be in the Fresno area earlier in the day to discuss California’s ongoin­g drought with community leaders and tour a private farm in Los Banos.

Obama is scheduled to greet Abdullah at Sunnylands at 7:35 p.m. He and Abdullah are expected to have frank discussions about Middle East peace and the civil war in Syria during a meeting and working dinner at the estate.

Obama is expected to stay the weekend, as the roads around Sunnylands are closed through Monday, and will likely play golf on estate’s course. He played the course in June, when he held a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.